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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Season 1, Episode 4 | Season 3, Episode 5

Claudia never knew any of this because she never looked back to see his face.

One of my fave passages in Hild (after the description of Breguswith's wool empire) is the one where early medieval teens discuss puberty and Begu just tells it like it is.

rocky return to erid with starving grace:

You if bugs didn't exist

A teacher and his aquarium

This is exactly their dynamic isn't it

I think for a while she really tried. She's seen Qianlong disappointed by Langhua, Gao Xiyue and to a lesser extent Consort Chun so she empathises that he is in a tough spot where he can't really trust anyone, so she tries to make things easier by earnestly proving to him that she was the loyal partner she had always been. What I think really hurt her is how little Qianlong regarded what they once had. Before everything came crashing down, Qianlong rarely looked back wistfully at what they once had and blamed himself for being arrogant enough to think his love and trust can endure the harem shitshow, rather he absorbed "we used to be childhood best friends" into his calculus of 'who should I believe' every time a conflict arises. Soon Qianlong began to say "Consort Xian and I have known each other for a long time" as dispassionately as him saying that he appreciates Langhua or Consort Chun for birthing children for him. I think at that point Ruyi just lost the willpower because she knew that the old Qianlong was gone and there was no use fighting for it anymore.